F-16C/I
1 x Mi-17 (TuAF v SyAAF 2013)

Does anyone have the details on this event?

Rafale & NH-90

Great shots, are there any shots of the NH-90 from the Rafale’s HUD?

Also a Rhodesian AF Allouette III shot a Botswana Defence Force Islander, not sure if it was shot down though

9 August 1979, while Rhodesian troops attacked a Botswanan force, a Botswanan Pilatus Britten-Norman Defender arrived in support of the Botswanans, when a Rhodesian SE-316B Alouette III, (K-Car) piloted by Air Lt Chas Goatley, hovering in ambush behind a hill emerged, engaged and damaged the Defender with its 20mm cannon. The Alouettes’s flight engineer (Gordon “Beaver” Shaw) used a handheld Hispano MG151 20mm. The Defender limped away and was able to land at its airbase (Molepolole, Botswana) without any fatalities and limited damage.

The Britten-Norman BN-2A Defender pilot was Seretse Khama Ian Khama, who later became a Lieutenant General and Commander of the Botswana Defence Force (1989 – 1998), and President of Botswana (April 1, 2008). First son of the first Botwana president Sir Seretse Khama, He attended Sandhurst Military Academy.

Helos killing fixed wing aircraft

Here are some examples of helicopter shooting down fixed wing aircraft:

12 January 1968, an Air America Bell 204B Huey, piloted by Ted Moore (Theodore H. (Ted) Moore), was airborne moving 105mm artillery ammo from Lima Site-36 near Ban Pha Thi, Laos, to lower artillery positions during aerial bombing and machine gun/rocket attacks by three North Vietnamese Air Force AN-2 Colts (inbound course 210) on Lima Site-85. The Colts flew down the valley to the west. Moore gave chase, attempting to call in USAF interceptors, when the Colts turned back east and began to climb to higher altitudes to clear the mountains they crossed the 204”s flight path allowing the 204 to intercept them. The 204 positioned above and on the pilot’s blind right side, Glen R. Woods (d. 14 Aug. 69 – helo crash), the flight mechanic, fired an AK-47, with armor piercing tracer rounds, out the door down on the first Colt. It crashed immediately into the jungle (20-28N., 103-38” E.). The second Colt was about a mile away and was quickly intercepted and shot down in the same fashion near Sam Neua, Laos.

27 October 1982, In Iraqi’s Baghdad Observer report “Day of the Helicopter Gunship”, that an Iraqi Mi-25 Hind shot down an Iranian F-4 Phantom, north of the Eyn Khosh area. It was reported that the Soviets brought a specially prepared Mi-24 Hind with a next generation longer range AT-6 Spiral ATGM, that was tested in the air-to-air mode. Mr. Marat Nikolaevich Tishenko, chief designer for the Mil Design Bureau, also made this claim at the 1989 Paris Air Show (Steven J. Zaloga, “ATA: Helicopter Dogfighting”, Mi Seitelman; Ed., Advanced Combat Helicopters, Evolving Roles, Motorbooks Int’l, 1988, p. 10; Steven J. Zaloga & George J. Balin, Anti-Tank Helicopters, Osprey, 1986, p. 36; “Hind, Overpowering or Overrated?”, Air International, May 1984, p. 252; John Fricker, “Recent Soviet Rotary-wing Revelations”, Air International, January 1990, p. 19; David C. Isby, Weapons And Tactics of the Soviet Army, Jane’s, 2nd Ed., 1988, p. 442; John Everett-Heath, Soviet Helicopters, 2nd Ed., Jane’s, 1988, p. 131; Sergei Sikorsky, Phone Interview, Orem, Utah, February 1990; Sergei V. Mikheev, Interview, Soviet Ministry of Aviation Industry (Kamov), Air-to-Air Conference sponsored by Defense Helicopter World, London, January 19, 1990; Yossef Bodansky, Phone Intervew, Orem, Utah, November 4, 1990; Yossef Bodansky, “Iraq’s Rotary Assets”, Part 1, Defense Helicopter World, Vol. 9, No. 5, October-November 1990, p. 24; “Communiqué No. 885”, FBIS-MEA-82-209, 28 Oct 82, p. E 2; John Fricker, “Russian Round-Up”, Air International, September 1989, p. 131: John W. R. Taylor & Kenneth Munson, “Gallery of Middle East Airpower”, Air Force Magazine, October 1992, pp. 68-69; “Day of the Helicopter Gunship”, Baghdad Observer, November 1, 1982, p. 4; Cooper, Tom & Farzad Bishop, “Fire in the Hills: Iraq and Iran In Conflict,” Air Enthusiast, March-April 2003, pp. 19-20). This has been refuted as being accurate – See Tom Coopers entries on this event.

20 July 1983 IRIAA AH-1J shot down an IrAF MiG-21 with its 20mm cannon and 68mm rockets (Cooper, Tom & Farzad Bishop, “Iran-Iraq War in the Air 1980-1988,” Schiffer, Atglen, 2000, p. 155).

14 February 1986, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA, reported an Iranian AH-1J helicopter had shot down an Iraqi MiG-21 jet fighter in the Val-Fajr 8 region, Sehati Esma’il IRIAA 1; weapons officer 3/Lt. Sahra’i (“Iraq claims That it Sink 29 Iran ships, Downed 2 Jets”, The Los Angeles Times, February 16, 1986, p. A5; “Khatem ol-Anbiya” HQ Communiqué” No. 13”, FBIS-SAS-86-032, 18 Feb 86, p. I 10).

24 May 2001 IDF AH-64A Apache Bo# 967 shot down a Lebanon registered Cessna 172 with a Hellfire missile. A Lebanese Cessna which entered Israeli airspace is shot down by an IAF Apache after failing to heed to IAF warnings and identify itself or turn back. Shortly before 11:00 IAF controllers detect the light plane taking off from Beirut and heading south towards Israel. As the plane enters Israeli airspace (11:20) it is intercepted and accompanied by IAF fighters and attempts are made to contact it. When the pilot fails to respond to Israeli attempts at communication, including standard international signals and radio frequencies, warning shots are fired in front of it. Arriving on the first anniversary of Israel’s withdrawal from South Lebanon, the plane is feared to be on a possible suicide mission by the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, and as it continues to head south, approaching heavily populated areas, a decision is made to down it. At 11:53, over Mikhmoret, an IDF “Magic Touch” Squadron Apache fires a single missile, destroying the plane and killing the pilot, Stefan Nikolian, a 43 years old Lebanese of Armenian heritage. (Ra’anan Weiss, ‘AH-64A/D Peten and Saraf in IAF Service’, IsraDecal Publications, Israel, 2011, pp. 14-15; (Arieh O’Sullivan, IAF downs Lebanese plane Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, May 25, 200, Page: 01.A; Arieh O’Sullivan, ‘A bad day to violate Israeli airspace, Jerusalem Post, Jerusalem, May 25, 2001, page 3A).

9K338 Igla-S (SA-24)

It’s either the 9K38 Igla (SA-18) or newer variant 9K338 Igla-S (SA-24) and judging by that photo I’d say it’s the later one.

Thanks, That was what I was looking to receive.

Igla

But what is it’s Russian designation and NATO code name?

HUD Images

Great images, now are there any HUD images of the SU’s and MiG’s? FLIR would be great as well!!